You’d think that a company whose founders made their Silicon Valley debut by temporarily living in a Taco Bell Parking lot would not be big on frills. But ironically, perks are the very business of parking-lot startup AnyPerk.
AnyPerk now has their very own office, complete with floors and ceilings, in San Francisco, but they still see perks as one of the easiest ways to make employees happy. CEO and founder Taro Fukuyama says that 95 percent of employees look at the perks a company has to offer when deciding whether or not to accept a job offer.
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If you really want to keep me happy at my job, forget the gimmicky perks and just give me the cash you would have spent on them. The only kind of perks I’d really be interested in are things that actually make my life easier, like flexible work hours or a nicer office.
And do companies really think that a discount on my phone plan would be enough to make me stay at a job that I would otherwise want to leave?
People actually value perks at a higher level than their cash equivalent. Joining AnyPerk, for instance, costs a company $5 per employee, per month. No one is going to care about a $5 a month salary increase, but they do like gym membership discounts, cell phone discounts, etc, that are greater than the $5 cost to the company.
Is this an advertisement for Any Perk? Or a sponsored article?
I wish someone was giving me extra money! But, sadly, no. If you look through my archives you’ll see that I, rather regularly, write about companies who are doing things right. It’s not meant to be investigative reporting. It’s meant to give other managers ideas on how to do it.
For another similar article, check out the one on Big Ass Fans: http://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/motivating-employees-were-not-a-family-but-we-are-a-tribe.html